let's get right to nbc news senior political editor mark murray. love when you break down the map. >> hillary clinton has a 272-174 electoral lead over donald trump and it's worth noting what it was last month. it was 288 for hillary clinton and 174 for trump. so what ended up changing? we moved north carolina to the tossup. we had that. >> orange is tossup? >> right and now we have the one electoral vote in nebraska, essentially the omaha area. we put that in tossup. so that explains where things are right now this is an advantage for hillary clinton because she has 272 electoral votes. you need 270 to win the presidency. so without florida north carolina iowa and nevada she surpasses 270 electoral votes. that's a significant lead in the battleground map. >> if he takes those it swings his way. is. >> if he wins the toups, she still wins which is why he has to go into the virginia and colorado. >> he has to pull the lean democrats over to him and you have new polling? >> so here is the nbc/survey monkey poll it has hillary clinton up six points un

time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed. >> joining me now, nbc news senior political editor, mark murrayo the wall? what will we be talking about on sunday? >> tamron, this entire week. this started -- we now have the post labor day sprint going on. you saw the commander-in-chief forum that nbc and msnbc had on wednesday. and i do think that it still is reverberating for donald trump and trump now finds himself on the defensive after the 48 hours after that forum. so i think that's a storyline. of course, 9/11 and the 15th anniversary is big. and tamron, looking ahead into next week, president obama hitting the campaign trail. you and chuck talked about it. i think that's a potential big moment to watch next week. >> we'll be watching "meet the press" to see some stories we'll likely be talking about on monday. thank you very much, mark. have a great weekend. >> thanks, tamron. you too. >> we'll be right back with "born in the usa." is it a caregiver determined to take care of her own? or is it a lifetime of work that blazes the path to your passions? your personal success takes a financ

joining me now, senior political editor, mark murray. mark, it is game on after labor day.. what does she need to do with it? >> well, what she needs to do is spend it over the next two months. and i do think there was a strategy from the clinton campaign on how to handle the last two weeks in august. and do remember in past presidential cycles, late august and early september is the conventi convention season. this is the first campaign when the conventions both happen in july so now is time to hit the campaign trail or raise money. and what the clinton campaign decided to do, use the last two weeks of august to raise a tremendous amount of money so they don't have to hit the fund raising trail again or at least all that much, where then you can devote the next two months, the last two months this campaign all to hitting battle ground states and prepping for those all-important debates. >> but did that cost her votes? the polling numbers are tightening. >> well, i'm not sure that it's actually cost her votes, stephanie. although you could argue that her numbers have slippe

beach where donald trump is campaigning this afternoon and in new york, senior polical editor, mark murray battleground map, tell us the big moves in this new battleground map as we head to the finish. >> yeah, andrea, this is our new september battleground map that we ended up having and it shows overall that hillary clinton has a

beach where donald trump is campaigning this afternoon and in new york, senior polical editor, mark murray. mark, you've got the battleground map, tell us the big moves in this new battleground map as we head to the finish. >> yeah, andrea, this is our new september battleground map that we ended up having and it shows overall that hillary clinton has a 272 to 174 electoral lead over donald trump. two changes in the past month. in north carolina, we had actually had this in the lean democratic column, this came after our august nbc/wall street journal poll. hillary clinton with a nine-point lead in north carolina. a lot of the polling has narrowed, in most polls she's still ahead in north carolina, but we move at the toss-up. we also ended up putting the one electoral vote in nebraska. that's out in the omaha area. that actually been lean democrat, we ended up putting it in the toss-up column as well. and so that brings hillary clinton's lead to 227 to 174, you need 270 electoral votes to be able to win. she does have a significant advantage here. and one of the big reason why is she has t

senior political editor mark murray joins me now. with tonight's focus on national security, we had donald trump earlier today trying to distinguish himself with this speech in philadelphia. i want to play a part of it. >> in a trump administration, our actions in the middle east will be tempered by realism. the current strategy of toppling regimes with no plan for what to do the day after only produces power vacuums that are filled simply by terrorists. gradual reform, not sudden and radical change, should be our guiding objective in that region. >> is trump's message going to be a shot at past republican presidents? >> that's one way to look at it. i think he's taking a big shot at hillary clinton. but by extension also the bush administration, particularly when trump was talking about realism to foreign policy. that's whun of the reasons why there are key figures from the bush years who have either been sitting on their hands who are now backing hillary clinton's campaign because of that philosophical difference. it is worth notin

. >>> joining me now, nbc news senior political editor, mark murray. hey there, mark.nks for being with us. republicans now facing races this november, top gop leaders maybe started to dump trump. let's talk about this e-mail from john mccain. what he said about hillary clinton and why it is raising some eyebrows, particularly yours. this is something you and i talked about this morning. >> yeah, is there a video that john mccain put out yesterday that said if hillary clinton is elected president, people like me need to be able to have it be a check on her in the united states senate. and to me, that was really note worthy. one, because in some ways, he's all but admitting that hillary clinton is your favorite in this presidential election, and donald trump might not be able to win. and two, it's noteworthy, because this is the strategy you're going to see other republicans use, trying to separate themselves from donald trump if they think he can't win. >> nbc's mark murray joining us from washington. thanks so much. we'll be right back with our latest born in the usa

nbc news senior political editor mark murray joining me for a closer look at these numbers. segment we like to call mark the map. >> i love it. and craig, we have a plethora of polls to go through. fresh out this morning as andrea was talking about, there's this "new york times" cbs poll with hillary clinton 2 points over donald trump in a head to head match-up of likely voters and in a four-way match-up, the race is exactly tied. and then we look at the quinnipiac poll that came out yesterday afternoon. hillary clinton has a 5 point lead there and it has a big change since august where donald trump has gained ground in this national poll. now, also, you end up looking in the same quinnipiac poll and it's a two-way race with gary johnson and jill stooeein. these are more of a drag on hillary clinton than donald trump. >> we spend a lot of time talking about national polls here for obvious reasons but how much do national polls really matter in the march to 270? >> i think the march of 270, the state polls matter more. usually the national conform with the state polls because

mark murray is here with the list. let's launch in. it's been around 15 months we have been covering the race. there was thinking that somehow there would be a different type of donald trump but the donald trump we saw last night was the same one we have seen this whole campaign. >> do you think he came into the debate thinking i will be calm and she hit him with you got money from your dad, not $100,000, $14 million. he never corrected her. that was the first we saw the dip down. >> it was the difference of the first 15 minutes before she went into the $14 million your dad gave you. i think she baited him and his demeanor changed. >> which hillary clinton came to play? >> it was a good performance, not one of her best. i have watched more than three dozen debates she's had. it was probably a b plus, a minus performance. she ended up doing what she does well and sometimes baits the opposition. we saw what happened. >> the question, how does trump fare in his first one on one debate. you have unscientific polls. some have him winning 70

in broad terms, mark murray, what do you make of what she said? i found it especially interesting she pointed out this double standard that she and her -- they talked about this before. they feel as if they are held to a different standard than donald trump. >> yeah, i'll just piggyback on what steve ended up saying. part of this press conference was really to double down, to relitigate last night. to make sure that drives the news. sometimes do you that in our rally that she's about to have in north carolina. she wants to have at least two pilots at the apple at that, holding that press conference today. the other part is, her supporters are working the reps. and we see this happen all of the time. this is like in a preseason game where the opposition says we're seeing an illegal pick play. be sure to call this when the regular season ends you have starting. one other thing struck me when she was talking about trump's comments about vladimir putin, president obama, what would ronald reagan say that you had a republican presidential nominally who

nbc news senior political editor mark murray is here. huge turnaround. >> ohio is so important. let's look at the numbers. donald trump has a five-point lead among likely voters. i think why so many people find this poll a little bit shocking is days earlier we ended up seeing this poll from cbs news and u gov, hillary clinton with a seven-point lead. let me walk you through the differences. going back to the bloomberg poll, this was conducted september 9 through the 12th. when you end up going into the cbs poll, it was before the health scare. so timing does end up mattering on this. one other thing that matters is the party identification. in this bloomberg poll, you had republicans with a seven-point lead and party identification. that is that there were seven points more republican than democrats in this poll so you have a more republican leaning electorate. when you go to the cbs poll, what ended up happening was democrats had a seven-point lead in party reblgs tration. so, you know, there are a lot of things going on. the pollster

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for more on that, i'm going to bring in mark murray breaking down the numbers. note for our viewers at home bottom of the screen there is the values voter summit happeng in washington. rudy giuliani on stage right now with tony perkins. if there's something newsworthy, we will dip into that. we are expecting donald trump to take the stage any moment now. so if i have to interrupt you, my apologies in advance. let's talk about this poll here. is it true we're looking at a tie in florida? >> craig, we are and really looking at kind of tightening everywhere. but it's a mix bag for both donald trump and hillary clinton. let me walk you through the numbers from this kwin pquinnip survey. it's vir yulely a tie. hillary clinton had been leading in florida according to most polls that were out. but that's some of the bad news and good news for donald trump. here's one of the pieces of bad news. hillary clinton is up 4 points in north carolina. most polls, not all, show her with a little lead in the tar heel state. now back to some good news for donald trump. quinnipiac

mark murray. this is potentially troubling for hillary clinton. ohio.portant to republicans than democrats actually, but if john kerry had won ohio he would have been president of the united states. ohio now in this new poll is 48-43, a five-point lead for donald trump over hillary clinton. >> very good news in the poll for donald trump and his campaign. there was a cbs poll that had hillary clinton up seven points. one thing about the bloomberg poll it was during the news about hillary clinton's health scare. it will be interesting to see if the numbers continue after she gets back on the campaign trail together. also going inside the numbers. the poll was very republican heavy. had a plus 7 for republicans. interestingly the cbs poll had a big democratic advantage. my bottom line is this is a toss up race. when you see polling results one way or the other, normally you should end up circling it as a toss-up. that's the best designation now for ohio. >> in fact, i think if you look at the travel schedules until hillary clinton became ill we were in ohi

. >>> mark murray joins me now break down the polls we're talking about. so mark, there is a lot of information coming at us just this morning. walk us through this polling here. >> you're right, halle, we have a plethora of new polls out today. including the nbc survey monkey. this is the join line weekly tracking poll. and halle, it has hillary clinton with a six-point lead, unchanged from last week. sop not a lot of movement over the long labor day weekend that we've actually seen. but, there is another poll that does show some movement. and this comes from cnn, and it has donald trump up two points among likely voters. our survey monkey online tracking polls among registered voters, likely voters, it has donald trump up two points. but when you break down a lot of the recent badle ground polling, it seems to confirm more to our online tracking than the cnns, and let me show you, this is pennsylvania, and hillary clinton with an eight-point lead according to cbs and their ugov online poll. another poll out of north carolina has hillary with a four-point

i want to get to mark murray who's on set with me.th today shows there's a huge advantage for hillary clinton among african-americans, even as trump insists, hey, i'm growing with this population. our numbers show not true. >> exactly. our numbers have hillary clinton winning 81% of the african-american vote to donald trump's 7%. normally democrats in our polling shows she's higher at that 90% figure. it's difficult to put into purely political terms, peter, and very crassly so to look at what's happening in charlotte and put it in a political prism because we know the presidential campaign is different from a lot of the protests happening but it's worth noting north carolina is a presidential battleground state. for hillary clinton to win there, she needs to not only speak to the african-american community, but also mobilize them. so, what is playing out, and it's -- you know, you can make the argument that this doesn't carry on for another week or so, that we're on to another story line, but i do think this should have some alarm be

mark murray joins me. traditional people connected to the military vote republican. >> i think that's what we're seeing. there was a survey in 2012 which showed mitt romney had a 20-point load over barack obama when it came to military service members and veterans and so i'm not surprised at all. this is one of your more conservative-leaning groups. these people traditionally aren't swing voters, but this is all important. the biggest thing is not necessarily where these military people are, but also what the candidates are saying when it comes to who would make for the better commander-in-chief. that's going to be on full display at the forum. >> when you dig in on this poll, tl another number about confidence. >> among all voters, you have 46% who said they had confidence in hillary clinton being commander-in-chief versus 39% for donald trump. that's actually striking because that 7-point margin is close to the 6-point margin in the overall horse race among all voters in the nbc survey monkey poll. we se

mark murray is standing by.ing at some of the back and forth over where the race stands is always interesting. but you have the numbers, not the opinion stuff. >> that's right. we have new ad spinning numbers on where donald trump is putting his new ad, where he's going after hillary clinton on her deplorables comment from the weekend. we have him spending about $2.3 million in four states, about $900,000 in north carolina, $500,000 in ohio, and $400,000 each in pennsylvania, north carolina. and to me what is very interesting about this, these will just the four states where gud donald trump is advertising. these are his must win battleground states. >> looking at pennsylvania since president obama is there in philadelphia, so he has the ad by highlighting the deplorables, the clinton campaign has their rebuttal ad with the laundry list of things that donald trump, the khan family, mccain, goes on and on. philadelphia and the urban parts of pennsylvania, her deployables comment, they're not going to find offensi

we have bob costa, and our plilt call editor mark murray. time for one question to each of you. let me start with ken. we're talking foreign policy and russia. you have new reporting on this intelligence briefing from donald trump that's been raising some eyebrows as he learns about some of these issues. what can you tell us. >> what's interesting about what happened on the briefing in august is apparently trump's top adviser, the former head of the intelligence agency was asking so many pointed questions and interrupting the briefers so often that governor chris christie, who was also attending, had to ask him to calm down. touched his hand to get him to stand down and let the briefers continue. >> steve king says it's okay to talk about certain things that come out of intelligence briefings. do you agree with him on that? >> u.s. intelligence officials and formerer officials i spoke to are push iing back on that saying this is the first time they can remember presidential candidates have been getting briefings for years. this is the first

mark murray on set, thank you very much. the simultaneous events taking place, hillary clinton greeting folks at her rally in raleigh, north carolina, after speaking to them briefly -- not briefly, but just a short time ago, 1:30 i think she began there. donald trump in little havana before he moves his way from that position in florida to melbourne. we'll continue to watch that. but still a lot of momentum off of last night. depending on who you ask, everybody knows either their person won or not. we talk about the undecided. joining me is sara huckabee, senior adviser to donald trump. great for being here. i do the family test, i ask them what they think and doesn't move the needle. it really is about the undecideds. there's still work to be done on that. campaign surrogate rudy giuliani put out a suggestion last night that donald trump could skip or should skip the next two debates. are there conversations in the campaigns that he'll show up at the next two october debates? >> not as of now. for now i think he plans on sh

let's get the numbers from senior political editor mark murray. good to have you in new york.nd me in many ways. not what we would have predicted a year and half ago. >> let's go to the magic wall, chris. right now, according to abc/"washington post" poll, we have lik hillary clinton with a fife-point lead among likely voters. even larger among registers voters. this is what the national race looks like. when you look at the battlegrounds according to our new polls, in the blue state of new hampshire, remember, barack obama won new hampshire in 2008 and 2012, we have a very tight contest. hillary clinton is up just two points in a four-way race. and a one-point race in just a head-to-head matchup between herself and donald trump. >> gary johnson with 15%. >> something definitely to watch. >> let's look at one more battleground blue state. this is nevada. nevada was another state that barack obama won in 2008 and 2012. we have donald trump up one point within the margin of error in a four-way race. hillary clinton is up one among likely voters in a two-way. very close in a blue

. >>> i want to go to mark murray who will break a few things down for us. i want to take a look at hillary clinton getting ready to take the stage. kristen welker saying she's on her way there, getting ready for that. she's been going after, as you know, the young vote, millenials, people who were big fans of bernie sanders, people who she has not been able to bring in her corner just yet, partly because of the third-party factor, people like gary johnson. we have to talk about gary johnson and the moment he had last night that seemed to be fairlily -- potentially damaging to him. i want to play that sound bite and talk to you about it on the other side. >> who's your favorite foreign leader? >> my favorite -- >> any continent, name one foreign leader you respect or look up to. anybody. >> mine was shimon peres. >> i'm talking about living. any continent. canada, mexico, europe, over there, asia, south america, africa, name a foreign leader that you respect. >> i goes i'm having an aleppo moment in the former president -- >> i'm giving you the whole world.

mark murray is here with a closer look at the nbc news survey monkey weekly election tracking poll. thanks for hopping the train to come up and visit with us here, sir. give us the top lines. >> this is our weekly online tracking poll we take every single week and the new number we end up having right now is that hillary clinton has a 4 point lead over donald trump. last week, it was 6 points. now it's 4 points. but it puts an important perspective on the 4 point lead. that was president barack obama's margin over mitt romney in 2012 so if this is the final margin, and of course, we have a ways to go, but that would probably end up leading to a decisive electoral college victory for hillary clinton, so keep that in mind but with the four-way match-up, it's tighter with hillary clinton just having a 2 point lead over donald trump. and one of the reasons why this is closer, well, you end up having independents that are close. hillary clinton is up 38% to 36% among self-identified independents and then the favorable/unfavorable scores of the candidate and almost mirror images, both are

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i want to bring in mark murray. trump is up? we haven't seen anything like this in over six weeks. >> yes. in the last four to six weeks and this has donald trump up 2 voents up. the difference is that the likely to tis pate. they oez pose we saw in 20125 that usually have someone who goes into the voting booth going a card while, that person that does not -- zb you goent get extra credit for the cart wheel per normal mans? >> no! this suspect a this is a general presidential elector rat. i think it throes aly it l oit of woter. >> this naeks me want to turn. it wasn't like he broadened out that base in terms of immigration. he fired up that majorly enthusiastic. i think it's really important to understand how it all actual, 272 in lek terror kal votes and 174 we have states like colorado, virginia, new hiefrp it will also throw in pennsylvania as well on all of this. if any anything and ls and most polling showing hillary clinton with the advantage in those states. if you have successfully confused me even more. >> i want to br

. >> inventor mark murray even patented the bun in 2009. this is a ham dog. >> do we have them? >> it's from australia. >> "stark tank australia." if you can't choose between a hamburger or a hot dog, use a ham dog. >> it goes on top of a bun that is shaped like a hot dog and hamburger. >> the dog is wrapped >> yes. yes. it's a meatapaluzza. the other thing that would make this better is a nice slice of fried spam on top. >> deliciousness. >> let's check your weather and see what's happening. we've got a lot of wet weather in the upper midwest. strong storms firing up. chicago probably some airport delays at midway and o'hare. 7 million folks under flood threat. 1 to 2 inches of rain falling around dubuque. 70-mile-per-hour wind gusts, could be some hail. rain amounts 3 to 5 inches but locally could be up to 6 and the grounds saturated by all that >> good wednesday morning, everyone. we have a few areas of fog and low clouds this morning that will yield to mostly sunny skies. low to mid 80s as the temperatures on the coastline may fall back as the sea bre we feel summertime warm

. >>> joining me now, nbc news senior political editor, mark murray. yesterday you talked about the four things that trump needed to answer to really get his speech across. did he tackle those four things? did he get that done? >> really the biggest one he did. there was so much uncertainty about whether there was any way for a legal path or legal status for the undocumented immigrants and he ruled that out. he said there should be deportations, either mass deportations for criminals or self deportation for people who are undocumented immigrants and closing off any way they can make a living, do anythig, which basically says everyone needs to leave. >> i want to talk about this news fox news poll that now shows a v clinton up 41% to trump's 39% in a four-way matchup. are we seeing a result in the shift of the way that we're seeing trump's campaign run? we're seeing a much more scripted trump, new management there? what exactly is this a result of? >> look, i think what we can see is the poll numbers have gotten a little bit closer but it's also worth n

senior political editor mark murray. highs and lows. let's break it down. the low of the week. >> stephanie, it's a tie. actually two tweets. the tweet storm this morning by donald trump in the wee hours of the morning attacking former miss universe alicia machado but suggesting somehow donald trump might have been sniffing coca e cocaine, a baseless accusation and having howard dean apologizing for suggesting that innuen innuendo. >> high? >> i thought the debate was fantastic. you ended up having contrasting economic and foreign policy visions. it was entertaining. they ended up going after each other. you know, it gave voters just a great opportunity to see the differences and contrast between the republican and democratic presidential nominees. >> you're right. they gave us a lot of meat. next week, anything for us? >> yeah, so the vice presidential debate on tuesday, stephanie. again, another big milestone in this campaign. and then i'm going to be watching all of the polling that is coming out after the first debate. some of the polling suggests hilla

. >> mark murray live in washington. thanks so much. along with kasie hunt and jacob rascon here in michigan. i want to talk about this with sarah huckabee sanders, senior adviser to the trump campaign. thanks for being with us. >> great to be here. >> let me pick up with the issue of polling mark is talking about. given what we have seen from your candidate in the last 24 hours and where the polling numbers are, how concerned should you be? >> not at all. you have another poll, the l.a. times that show the lead expanding since the debate. i think we are in a great place. we have a great message. one of the most important polls i think we can look at in this election is 70% of americans in any poll you look at in any state want change. donald trump is the ultimate change agent. hillary clinton represents the exact status quo. when people go to the ballot they will be looking for change. there is no question that donald trump represents it and hillary is everything wrong with it. >> you talked about the great message from trump. you hear

. >> joining me now, nbc news senior political editor mark murray. what a week we've had.uch to talk about. the vice presidential debate is next week. looking at this, hillary clinton's alicia machado was so powerful because donald trump didn't see this coming. he said, where did you get this from? it's a punch you don't see. all week, he's been threatening to hit hillary clinton on husband's affairs. i don't know of any fighter who tells you that many times, okay, i'm going to hit you in the nose over and over and not expect you to be ready for the punch. she's ready for it. >> i think the best way to forget about the polls, forget about a lot of the pundit decorations but just the body language and the rhetoric and the activity coming from the trump campaign tells you who ended up winning the debate and who lost. the trump campaign has been lashing out and of course, the campaign and surrogates are talking about the 1990s, sexual scandals involving bill clinton and then, of course, we've now spent a total of four days talking about alicia machado. not where you want to b

joining me now, nbc news senior political editor mark murray.art out with so i guess donald trump is taping right now with doctor oz. what we know, the results of whatever test he's taken won't be released. >> that's the opposite of what we were led to believe earlier in the week. of course all in the context of hillary clinton and her own health scare. the guidance we ened up getting from the trump campaign is what donald trump's going to do is talk about health generally on dr. oz and talk about the physical he recently received but we won't get any data or results from that. >> dr. oz did not perform that physical? >> we don't know anything. i think to me the biggest story is there's certainly some transparency issues when it companies to hillary clinton. whether it's on taxes or health, we still know more about her than we know about donald trump and think that's the biggest takeaway. >> we just got this image in. also today this immigration attorney writes a letter on behalf of melania trump saying he's seen the paperwork but we can't see t

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senior political editor, mark murray. we brought the show to new york today.reak down some numbers. some states traditionally blue leaning and some red states. >> it's a deadlock in some of the blue states. in new hampshire, our poll has hillary clinton with the 2 point lead among likely voters. a lot of others showing it to be a bigger race but we show it to be a tight contest. in the blue state of nevada which obama ended up winning in 2008 and 2012, donald trump up one in a fourway and hillary clinton up in a two-way race. very close contest. >> margin of error is four. so basically, these are even. >> that's why we wruz the wouse deadlocked. but in the blue states. donald trump in florida is up plus 2. 2 point lead in the three-way johnson. >> gary johnson at 10 points right now. we remember fralph nader. his numbers wane, whatever percent a third party could be critical. >> do these people even show up to vote? that's right. a big uncertainty we'll have to monitor in the weeks ahead. one other battleground poll to let you know about, donald trump with a 2

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mark murray, andrea mitchell. and kamisha for the hometown newspaper called "the new york times." andrea, you heard the senate foreign relations chairman, he is just not going to get enthusiastic about trump, but he's not going to -- >> welcome to new york. >> i tell you, it's live, baby. but he's also not going to throw him overboard either. he really is trying to walk a tight rope. >> he's walking a tightrope, not throwing him off the "intrepid," not throwing him overboard. this is a foreign relations chairman who was also worried about the budget. there is word that donald trump hasn't talked about which is called pay go. and if you add it up, everything that he said in this -- the bullet points, he wants more surface ships. he wants more subs. he wants more marine battalions. he wants a bigger army. none of that is possible under the sequester. and he has not explained how he'd pay for any of it or what he'd take from domestic spending. >> that speech today, what he was outlining, defense lobbyists in washington were probably drooling when they heard that. >> but also, chuck,

joining me now to break it all down, mark murray.riday, i said, what would be the headline on sunday? who knew it would be a story regarding hillary clinton's health and transparency on both sides but we have some poll numbers out you want to discuss as well. >> absolutely, tamron. four brand new polls that show so very close contests in both red and blue states. let me break down some of the red states. in arizona, we have donald trump only up by 1 point in a state that since i've been covering politics is always reliably in the red column here and then also in another red battleground, tamron, in georgia, you have donald trump up just 3 points. so you can almost get a sense of whether it's a lean or a toss-up but these races are pretty close but then in some of the blue states, those are ones that barack obama won in 2008 and 2012. in nevada, hillary clinton only up by 1 point among likely voters. 5 points among registered voters and then when you get to new hampshire, again, we have hillary clinton up by just 1 point. other polls

mark murray and kristen welker covering the clinton campaign.he uproar over skittles. i was talking to adam schiff about this. the congressman was reacting. this is a continuing problem with some of the tweeting from the trump family and from the trump campaign. >> this is just not the message the campaign wants to talk about. defending the issue. this is on stationary that said trump, pence. this was trying to make the argument against admitting refugees in the united states. we can put up the tweet for people who aren't familiar wit. it said if i had a bowl of skittles and told you three would kill you, would you take a handful? he said that's our syrian refugee problem. there was outrage. the clinton campaign called it disgusting. there were photos all over. skittles was the number one trending item showing images of young children, the famous picture of the child with the stunned gaze looking out beneath the blood and dust. the other young boy who washed up on the shores of the mediterranean from september of 2015. skittles weighed in saying

mark murray helping us out today. thanks very much. >>> other breaking news as we speak about national security and foreign policy. this comes to us, of course, from north korea. overnight, north korea conducted its largest nuclear test ever, caing what is a strg 5.3 magnitude earthquake in the region. the white house, world leaders, all condemning this latest provocation. the white house, in fact, putting out a statement, just a matter of moments ago. we've put it together to put on the screen. the president reiterated the unbreakable u.s. commitment to the security of our allies in asia and around the world. this from press secretary josh earnest. the president indicated he would continue to consult our allies and partners in the days ahead to ensure provocative actions from north korea are met with serious consequences. nbc's chief global correspondent, bill neely, following these latest developments from our bureau in it london. bill, i know you have been to north korea, you were there not long i believe after the

. >> mark murray, senior political editor. every time -- i just feel like -- >> pretty cool. >> you know? they never let me play with it. thank you. >>> msnbc political analyst, craig tyler, ted cruz's presidential campaign. good to see you on a tuesday. thank you. >> morning. >> you saw that map we were showing there. >> we've got to get you your own map. >> i've been asking for months. mark was function mentioning, hillary clinton with more than enough votes to win this thing. if you are donald trump on a tuesday morning, what do you about where you currently stabbed in this race? >> well, he's tied in ohio, but unfortunately, losing georgia. as you said, north carolina back in play. this is all going to be about these battleground states, and i think that's why you're seeing donald trump modulate his position on immigration, where he's now saying he hasn't ruled out a path to legalization. that's important to the republican educated affluent voters, mostly in the suburb. he knows he cannot win with simply a base he has. he

and this is one of those things that mark murray and i were going, wait a minute. everybody is wonder, when is reince priebus going to do this? the candidates have already done it in many of these races. >> yeah. chuck, they're smart. and they want to preserve their careers. and they don't need them. and thumbs up signal from priebus. obviously, they are going to follow what john mccain did. i've been around a while. i heard it with goldwater. i support the nominee but now let me tell you about me and my record. that's what you're going to hear from loads of republicans. and, chuck, i'm very susspushs about that poll that showed almost a quarter of clinton's voters are willing toet split. it was -- let me tell you. ticket splitting was only 10% of the voters in 2012. i don't think it's going to jump nearly that high. >> if you look at '96, it was a situation where republicans essentially, they did almost put out a memo. i think haley barbour at the time, the rnc chairman, said it's time to save the house and senate, and it worked. clinton won by nine points, and de

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. >> inventor mark murray even patented the bun in 2009. this is a ham dog. >> do we have them? >> it's from australia. >> "stark tank australia." if you can't choose between a hamburger or a hot dog, use a ham dog. >> it goes on top of a bun that is shaped like a hot dog and ur meat? >> yes. yes. it's a meatapaluzza. the other thing that would make this better is a nice slice of fried spam on top. >> deliciousness. >> let's check your weather and see what's happening. we've got a lot of wet weather in the upper midwest. strong storms firing up. chicago probably some airport delays at midway and o'hare. 7 million folks under flood per hour. risk of severe weather from omaha up to minneapolis and around dubuque. 70-mile-per-hour wind gusts, could be some hail. rain amounts 3 to 5 inches but locally could be up to 6 and the grounds saturated by all that and that is your latest weather. hey, does your husband or wife need help in the style department? >> not just the husband, not just the wife, a couple? >> we want you to send us a photo of the two of you and why you both need help

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. >> inventor mark murray even patented the bun in 2009. this is a ham dog. >> do we have them?mburger or a hot dog, use a ham dog. >> it goes on top of a bun that is shaped like a hot dog and hamburger. >> the dog is wrapped around the meat? >> yes. yes. it's a meatapaluzza. the other thing that would make this better is a nice slice of fried spam on top. >> deliciousness. >> let's check your weather and see what's happening. we've got a lot of wet weather in the upper midwest. strong storms firing up. chicago probably some airport delays at midway and o'hare. 7 million folks under flood threat. 1 to 2 inches of rain falling per hour. risk of severe weather from omaha up to minneapolis and around dubuque. 70-mile-per-hour wind gusts, could be some hail. rain amounts 3 to 5 inches but locally could be up to 6 and the grounds saturated by all that rain, we do ha >>> hey, good wednesday morning, i am anthony slaughter here. >> we have some rain this morning and down in the peninsula and including parts of the south hills. temperatures right now back in the 50s and 60s for the most